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“Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, yet the social sector remains focused on the isolated intervention of individual organizations.” - John Kania & Mark Kramer The term Rust Belt hints at some of the pervasive problems of our great region. Here, we don’t need to be reminded of the need for innovative solutions to inner city foreclosure, neighborhood vacancy and blight, homelessness, unemployment, the achievement gap in education, fresh water contamination, health disparities, and much more.
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The story of a man who is “subverting conventional building practice with an act of permanence, constructing an energy-efficient, multi-century legacy home for the price of a vinyl-clad, production-built box.”
Smart Growth America
homepage-excerpt: “I’ve been in this town 10 years, and I love this little town,” said Juanita Syljuberget, a resident of Notasulga, AL. "But it's going to dry up and go away unless we do something." homepage-excerpt: Geoff Anderson and Bill Fulton talk to the San Diego Union Tribune about smart growth strategies in a tough economic climate.Michigan Land Use Institute :: Bold Solutions for Michigan's People and Places
Families on the Edge: Designing Communities That Work Text PDF Northwest Lower Michigan is a hard place to live if you are poor.
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Michigan cities of all sizes and the regions surrounding them are our future.